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Phildel: Salford – live review
Phildel Sacred Trinity Church, Salford 5 December 2013 Sacred Trinity was the first church in Salford. Nestled a stone’s throw from Manchester city centre and a short walk from the Arena, it’s a...
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Watch This: The Bedroom Hour – X Marks The Spot
London 5 piece The Bedroom Hour have just released a new video for their single X Marks the Spot which you can find below. We chat to Mark from the band. Louder Than War: Tell us a bit about the band...
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New Artists Roundup: Dec 14th 2013
Another week, another roundup of new artists who’ve approached Louder Than War seeking exposure. This week Louder Than War have spared no efforts to brighten your dark days with a whistle-stop tour of...
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Punk’s difficult second albums reappraised
Punk was so of the moment that the second album was always going to be a challenge for the then young upstarts. I mean how could the class of 77 go beyond that flash in the pan moment when the energy...
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Rumour mill! Abba to reform? Glastonbury?
A recent hint by former Abba singer Agnetha Falkstog that Abba may be thinking of reforming to celebrate the 40th anniversary of their song Waterloo winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 1974 has sent...
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Peter Murphy speaks out about the drug bust ‘it’s not clear where the meth...
The recent arrest of former Bauhaus frontman Peter Murphy for having a bag of meth in his car was was a bit of an eye raiser. After a hit and run incident in Southern California he was charged with...
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Louder Than War’s Albums of the Year 2013: 50 – 1
And so, with no further ado, here’s our top 50 albums of the year 2013. A reminder that these albums were selected by the core editorial team at Louder Than War so pretty much all the albums below...
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Newsflash: Peter O’Toole RIP
It feels like the end of an acting era as the last of the giants, Peter O’Toole has died… The post Newsflash: Peter O’Toole RIP appeared first on Louder Than War.
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The New Madrids: Through The Heart Of Town – album review
The New Madrids – Through The Heart Of Town CD / DL Out Now 8/10 The debut album from Scottish alt country bad boys The New Madrids is another end of year cracker. The New Madrids – from Perth (the...
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Ghost Dance: Stop The World (Expanded Edition) – album review
Ghost Dance : Stop The World : Expanded Edition (Cherry Red) 2 CD/ DL Out now What happened when a cool independent so-called Goth band signed to a major label in the late 1980s …. ? (well, take a...
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Ronnie Biggs dies- former Sex Pistols singer bails out
it was one of Malcolm Mcclaren’s more controversial scams- getting great train robber Ronnie Biggs to sing with the post Rotten Sex Pistols. The resulting top 10 hit was actually a good, if tasteless....
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Malevolence: Reign Of Suffering – album review
Malevolence – Reign Of Suffering (Siege Of Amida) CD/DL Out Now 9/10 Sheffield’s Malevolence have been making waves throughout 2013. Through touring they have raised their profile and created a solid...
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Burial: Rival Dealer – ep review
Burial: Rival Dealer (Hyperdub) (CD, LP, DL) Out Now! 10/10 Released nearly a year to the day after the outstanding Truant / Rough Sleeper, Rival Dealer takes that releases structure and idealism to a...
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Musical conversation with Marcus Miller
Louder Than War’s Sophie Luchinsky experiences a “musical conversation” with American jazz composer, producer and multi-instrumentalist Marcus Miller who, amongst others, has worked with such...
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Louder Than War Interview: Nadine Shah
Photo of Nadine Shah by Valerio Berdini. Without a question of doubt Nadine Shah has been one of the years stand out artists what with the release of her critically acclaimed debut album, Love Your Dum...
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Louder Than War’s Writers Albums Of The Year: Near Misses
Last week we brought to you our editors “albums of the year” list. This week it’s the turn of our writers who, for the first year ever, have their say in our inaugural Writers Albums Of The Year list....
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watch this! great new video from Leeds punk crew and LTW faves Kleine Schweine
Kleine Schweine facebook page Kleine Schweine are a great punk rock band from leeds- they sound like the Dead Kennedys on angel dust and are killer live, so good that the great Cath Aubergine write...
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The Top Ten Songs of Kirsty MacColl
The Top Ten Songs of Kirsty MacColl With a selection of her albums currently out on re-release from Salvo, our man Fergal Kinney takes a look at Kirsty MacColl’s finest moments “I’ve been the token...
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Peter Murphy: Love Hysteria | David J: Etiquette of Violence | Daniel Ash:...
Peter Murphy: Love Hysteria - Expanded Edition 2 x CD David J : Etiquette of Violence – Expanded Edition 2 x CD Daniel Ash : Anthology 3 x CDs All on Cherry Red CD DL Out now Former Bauhaus frontman,...
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The Velvet Underground: White Light / White Heat (40th Anniversary reissue) –...
The Velvet Underground: White Light / White Heat – 40th Anniversary reissue (Universal / Polydor) CD / LP / DL Out Now! 10/10 The Velvet Underground’s ‘White Light/white Heat’ turned 45 this year,...
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